Friday, 30 March 2012

on DillyBeans this week the theme is Skulls and Skellies. I've made 2 pieces for this theme. firstly a tag and then a card!

The card background was made using TH 'chipped sapphire' distress ink and TH stamps spills and spatters. The red background was made using TH 'worn lipstick' 'chipped sapphire' and 'fired brick' then the background stamp used is Creative Expressions ART collage (all items available from That's Crafty (there's also FREE p&p over £20.00)

ooohhh also exciting news! I won a prize on Wicked Wednesdays ATC Challenge! woohoo!

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Monday, 26 March 2012

the theme on SPA this week is rusty ole barn! What a challenge and a half! lol It was Shannon's idea from SaturdayVille (what an amazing artist she is!) I admit that you can barely see my barn I did make this last week but didn't have chance to blog it til now.

WOW ! this weekend, I've even impressed myself ! My weekend with Anne was uber creative ~ we had a background making session to begin with ~ shaving foam with re-inkers, then re-inkers with water and then distress backgrounds. Made (ahem) a few!

I came home with

4 cards

10 tags

16 atcs

3 postcards

now i just have to scan/photograph them all.

These are 3 of the ATC's I made ~ beeswax collage. I'm entering them for this week's TMTA theme is EGGS

Sunday, 18 March 2012

here's the card I made for my mum. You can see how I made this card here

Of course my two girls came up trumps yet again. They got me a framed picture of the 'dishonourable phil' spencer. It is a joke in our house that as Kirsty is the honourable Kirsty that Phil must be dishonourable. So that's what we call him, never laughed so much when they presented this to me this morning in bed, he's taken pride of place on the wall now.

I got pancakes and tea in bed ~ yummy! and Little A didn't burn the house down! (A bonus)

I got the picture, a couple of gorgeous bracelets and a wonderful little plate.

My mate, Kate is {bleep} years old today so I want to wish her a HB. I quite like how this card has turned out, as on Wednesday I sliced through my thumb and it's bandaged up and impossible to do anything, in fact I couldn't even get to grips with a pair of scissors yesterday!

I'm doing an alphabet swap with Amy and as usual I'm flagging behind. However, as I'm not working at the mo, I've managed to get up to date with my ATC's. Here is Y for Yellow. I'm entering it into the Fab n Funky Challenge as their theme is yellow. Main image is from LisasAlteredArt

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Clever ole me, went out yesterday to see my friend, Claudia. I left my glasses at her house! aaaggh! it's about an hour's walk over there and I have my shopping coming today so.... no reading, no cutting out! What to do? I did a bit of tidying up and came across this old watercolour pad I've had for years, just a cheapie one from The Works.

So I set the tidying to the back of my mind and got inky with my spritzers

and I ended up with 13 backgrounds.

I'm having to get Little A to proof read this so it makes sense, as I cannot see a darn thing!

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Here is a giant tag that I've made, I am loving these big tags! I added an old book page and painted the background randomly with Jenni Bowlin paint dabbers. (these are such gorgeous colours) Then I stamped the background with this Queen Kat stamp, and some Tim Holtz stamps to grunge it up abit. I also used a retro TH stamp for the main image.

This week on SPA, we have celebrating St David's Day... a couple of days late as it's on 1st March but the daff's are out... I've got a plethora of them showing their yellow heads in my garden. I'd also like to enter this into The Stamp Man's theme of spring colours

The background is made using ink sprays and rock salt. The images are from The Octopode Factory on Etsy.